3 files changed, 6 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/tests/archive_tests.py b/tests/archive_tests.py
index 8257997d..d890d12f 100644
--- a/tests/archive_tests.py
+++ b/tests/archive_tests.py
@@ -16,9 +16,6 @@ from sos.archive import TarFileArchive
 from sos.utilities import tail
 from sos.policies import Policy
 
-# PYCOMPAT
-import six
-
 
 class TarFileArchiveTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
@@ -56,7 +53,7 @@ class TarFileArchiveTest(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_add_string_from_file(self):
         self.copy_strings = []
         testfile = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(dir=self.tmpdir, delete=False)
-        testfile.write(six.b("*" * 1000))
+        testfile.write(b"*" * 1000)
         testfile.flush()
         testfile.close()
 
diff --git a/tests/plugin_tests.py b/tests/plugin_tests.py
index 207cb724..c88534d8 100644
--- a/tests/plugin_tests.py
+++ b/tests/plugin_tests.py
@@ -10,12 +10,7 @@ import os
 import tempfile
 import shutil
 
-# PYCOMPAT
-import six
-try:
-    from StringIO import StringIO
-except:
-    from io import StringIO
+from io import StringIO
 
 from sos.report.plugins import Plugin, regex_findall, _mangle_command
 from sos.archive import TarFileArchive
@@ -29,7 +24,7 @@ def j(filename):
 
 def create_file(size, dir=None):
    f = tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, dir=dir)
-   f.write(six.b("*" * size * 1024 * 1024))
+   f.write(b"*" * size * 1024 * 1024)
    f.flush()
    f.close()
    return f.name
diff --git a/tests/utilities_tests.py b/tests/utilities_tests.py
index 9d8df584..3513f42c 100644
--- a/tests/utilities_tests.py
+++ b/tests/utilities_tests.py
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ import os.path
 import unittest
 
 # PYCOMPAT
-import six
-from six import StringIO
+from io import StringIO
 
 from sos.utilities import grep, is_executable, sos_get_command_output, find, tail, shell_out
 import sos
@@ -42,12 +41,12 @@ class TailTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_tail(self):
         t = tail("tests/tail_test.txt", 10)
-        self.assertEquals(t, six.b("last line\n"))
+        self.assertEquals(t, b"last line\n")
 
     def test_tail_too_many(self):
         t = tail("tests/tail_test.txt", 200)
         expected = open("tests/tail_test.txt", "r").read()
-        self.assertEquals(t, six.b(expected))
+        self.assertEquals(t, str.encode(expected))
 
 
 class ExecutableTest(unittest.TestCase):